Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

Lifespan diversity across the animal kingdom reveals extraordinary adaptations to survival, reproduction, and environmental change. While humans consider an average life expectancy of around 70 to 80 ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

A group of scientists from a biotechnology startup known as R3 Bio have created multi-organ biological platforms know as ...